Physics World has compiled what they see as key articles of “the legendary cosmologist and mathematical physicist” Hawking laid out his research vision in his 1981 inaugural lecture, Is the End in Sight for Theoretical Physics? There, Hawking thought that the … Continue reading →

Good for Roger Penrose in standing up to the Hawking-cult (represented by Lisa Randall), when he said Hawking’s achievements were “astounding” given his physical condition. so lightly debunking claims he was the greatest physicist of our time, comparable with Einstein. … Continue reading →

Mega-impacts of asteroids/comets were driving the terrestrial habitat in the hadean epoch >3.8 Gyr ago. Rather than sterilising the Earth, these impacts made it suitable for early primitive life, whether de-novo or seeded from space. 13-C depletion in graphitic carbon … Continue reading →

A consistent description is possible for gravitationally collapsed bodies in General Relativity, in which collapse stops before the object reaches its gravitational radius. Non-singular solutions exist with the density reaching a maximum close to the surface and then decreasing towards … Continue reading →

The four instances of the inspiral-merger pattern of a gravitation pulse from coalescing binary objects are over-interpreted and raise statistical questions. The final ring-down is too weak to distinguish exotic ‘Black Hole’ mergers from neutron star mergers. Why no identifications of the expected closer smaller merging events? The extraordinary claim to ‘primordial’ Black Holes is based on uncertain indications of spins. Continue reading →

They got the application in by the 31 January deadline, stimulated a lot of endorsements and swept up an array of other awards – Gruber Cosmology Prize, the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, the Shaw Prize in Astronomy, Special Breakthrough Prize … Continue reading →